How to organise window viewing areas in Mac OS

Updated15 February 2017reading time

Introduction

Tips to organise Windows on Mac? ?

Before we begin, we’ll clarify ‘Windows’ as the viewing area of your apps, not as Windows OS.

Organising and efficiently using the real estate you have on your Mac is really important. You can easily have a large screen and feel so cluttered with the cascading windows over windows. Even having a little MacBook with a window organiser software will be more productive.

There are lots of great apps that do the job, but I’ve picked one I found the most handy and that blew my mind.

What is the best app to use?

I’ve gone through different apps that do the same main function like Spectacle and Divvy. But I’ve recently discovered Hammerspoon, especially its config community. The reason being that I’ve found a set of community ‘user configurations’. These are totally editable under a file called ‘init.lua’, a Lua file.

Of course, you don’t have to know Lua to use the app. I’ve hand-picked among the community configs one that I find the best to use in my honest opinion.